I've been using FSBuild ( for years ). It is now in version 2.4.0.31  and exports to X-Plane 10 format.

 

The SID / STAR points are exported as coordinates, but it works...

 

Here's an example:

 

 

Thanks again for that excellent suggestion. I am using EFASS currently so I may need to look in to investing in FSBuild. 

I am having a new problem with this AC today. I cannot enter the initial cruise FL in the FMC. I enter "FL050" for example and nothing happens when I click on the LSK next to "CRZ FL /TEMP". I don't receive any error messages at all. I have followed the flight plan initialization in the manual so I don't know why this would happen.

EFASS gave me various virus alerts... I decided to uninstall it :-/

Thanks again for that excellent suggestion. I am using EFASS currently so I may need to look in to investing in FSBuild. 

I am having a new problem with this AC today. I cannot enter the initial cruise FL in the FMC. I enter "FL050" for example and nothing happens when I click on the LSK next to "CRZ FL /TEMP". I don't receive any error messages at all. I have followed the flight plan initialization in the manual so I don't know why this would happen.

 

Do not enter "FL050". Try "050" or "5000".

Do not enter "FL050". Try "050" or "5000".

Thanks. I tried that too but it was a no go. I just discovered that, apparently, you can't enter a FL less than FL200. It works fine above that. I'm not sure why that would be though.

Finally got finished perusing the 200 page manual and took her up for a quick flight with an ILS 07 touchdown at KPHF in light drizzle. I manually edited my own flight plan to try and keep it as simple as I could. I do think,however, this is the first time I actually flew a procedure turn correctly!

As has been said, compared to many 3D cockpits, she's not much to look at on the inside but she does fly beautifully. Actually, the more time I spent with her while I was reading the manual, the better she started to look! Went home at 2 with a 10 and woke up at 10 with a 321!  :biggrin:

 

It's also very educational to pick up a plane like this. After flying the same model all the time, I start to get the feeling I know something. Then I read something like this and realize how little I actually do know! I often wonder what is the correct way to make a flight plan. I read and read and think I begin to understand it and then suddenly I realize there's some other way that others are doing it. For instance, I've never flown a NPA and actually have no idea where to get the data for the runway as, according to this manual, is crucial to doing it correctly. Every time I try a flight planning tool, the flight plan is different. Do these airliners really have to fly a hundred miles out of the way to fly a proper plan? For example, I fly a route between KRIC and KPHF. It's a very short distance but keeps the times down and is just right for testing things out. When I auto create a plan with various tools, it always wants to take me to MODEL and then back to the south or they take me way off to the east and then back to the west etc, etc. I usually just load up the plan in the FMC and then start deleting waypoints to fly more directly to the IAF and that seems to work. However, it leaves me feeling as if I'm cheating somehow! I also realize this route is not standard fare and I'm sure that's the issue. I just pretend that I have to take the AC up for trials and that somehow leaves me feeling better.....

 

I know this may seem a bit off topic but, in reality, it isn't. I think it serves to relate how an aircraft simulated as well as this one is worth the investment in the educational merit alone. (Still can't wait to see her all dolled up in 3D though!  :blush: )

Have you noticed that, unlike any other add-on I know for X-Plane, and many for FSX, the barber pole on your "speed tape" adapts to your bank, reflecting, just like the real think, the higher speed margins when you're in a turn? 

 

There are many of these details in this GREAT model... :-)

 

In Level flight:

 

In a turn:

Well, Peter has allowed me to share, through PM, a link to the A320/21 manual for those of you who would like to get more insight about what and how the A321 is modelled.

 

Those interested, please PM-me and I'll send a link from where you can download a copy of the Manual. 

 

The Manual is copyrighted, and should not be made available anywhere without previous authorization from Peter!

I'm totally "peterized" and very happy to see a few you having fun with the Airbus.

 

Sometimes I want to fly something different and I'm almost dissapointed everytime when something does not work right.

Be warned, using his products will kill the fun in flying almost all of your other add on planes or simulators. :ph34r:

Ralf, and I am in debt to you for having, persistently :-) mentioned it to me along the last months...

 

Of course the 3d cockpit will be great, but for me I would be more than satisfied with popup PFD / ND, or a little bigger inst panel - because my close vision is really getting nasty :-/

I broke down and purchased FSBuild and it seems pretty decent. I have been having some issues though with this AC and ILS landings. For example, I flew a couple of flights from KRIC to KCLT and each ILS attempt at RWY 23 ends in the AC being either way too high or way too fast.  I am using the TOD from the grid in FSBuild (it shows to begin about 26 nm from SUDSY at FL240).The last attempt looked pretty good to me (though I did alter the descent rate a bit) until I got to LECAR and the plane then just started climbing rapidly ( I have no idea why) and once again i overshot the approach. Here's the fms flight plan I used:

 

I

3 version

     7

     1

     1  KRIC               167   37.505167   -77.319667

    13  -37.361_-077.969  7000   37.361817   -77.969003

    13  -37.282_-078.328 11000   37.282092   -78.328845

    13  -37.133_-078.982 19000   37.133931   -78.982959

    13  -37.000_-079.555 23000   37.000719   -79.555853

    11  SUDSY            14000   35.742956   -80.493795

    11  JEPHS             7000   35.415525   -80.664578

    11  ATELL             4000   35.333175   -80.778628

    11  LECAR             3000   35.280645   -80.851181

    11  DOVSE             1000   35.243639   -80.902197

     1  KCLT               748   35.213742   -80.949070

I'll give it a try.

 

Did you see a "drag required" message ? Sometimes you have to add drag on your descent.

 

Also, most RL Airbus crew / operators choose to use Open Descent instead of Managed, and even manually control the restrictions, but that climb you describe is strange.

 

Since I have never flown around there, could you please:

 

1) attach your FSBuild root file ( fms I believe )

2) include the freq you used for the ILS

 

Thx!

I can't stop flying base training patterns in this outstanding plane. Yesterday, I went to LPMA (uwespeed's wonderful scenery looks amazing!), took off from RWY 05, flew to the PST NDB and from there I started the VOR approach with the visual circling into RWY 05 again.

There is one thing I recognised: While flying by hand most of the time, I wanted to track the 213 radial from FUN VOR. Everything was tuned and set up correctly and the information on the ND was correct too, but I couldn't engage LOC mode. When an ILS is tuned, LOC and APP work perfectly, but not with the VOR. Any ideas?

Hi Michael!

 

Yiu mean this approach?You are not supposed to use a VOR as a Locator :-)   You'll have to be in raw mode, using your ND in VOR mode with the frequency on NAV1 and the proper radial, 212 in this chart ( there are variants on the radial depending on aircraft class and other factors...)

Right, I just want to use the LOC mode to follow the radial 213 on the FUN VOR until 6.0 DME where the visual turn begins.

Edit: Oh, I just found out that this won't work in an Airbus. I thought the LOC mode on the A320 series would be comparable to the VOR/LOC mode on a 737, but it isn't. So I just use the ND in VOR mode for reference and either fly headings manually to stay on a certain radial or use A/P with heading select to fly on the radial.